Aeromechanics of membrane wings with implications for animal flight

AIAA Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2096-2106

  Song, Arnold ^a,b,c   Tian, Xiaodong ^a,d   Israeli, Emily ^a,e   Galvao, Ricardo ^a,e   Bishop, Kristin ^a,f   Swartz, Sharon ^a   Breuer, Kenneth ^a,b,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c AIAA ^*

^d Vice President Residuals Group Practice Leader   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ASPECT RATIO; GAS DYNAMICS; MAMMALS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; MEMBRANE WINGS; REYNOLDS; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

WINGS;

EID: 49249113339     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.36694     Document Type: Article

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